Today the Green Party of England and Wales became the first major political party in Britain to formally declare that Zionism is racism. By a vote of 1,022 to 813 it passed a motion that also called for the abolition of the state of Israel and the establishment of a “single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital”. I have covered this fight before and I know how it ends, because we've been here already. It harkens back to one of the most disgraceful chapters in the United Nation's long history of anti-Israel bias. On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 3379, declaring Zionism "a form of racism and racial discrimination." It was sponsored by the Arab League and the Soviet bloc, pushed through at the height of Cold War maneuvering to isolate Israel diplomatically. US Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan called it what it was: "The Big Red Lie." It stood as the official position of the United Nations for sixteen years — a stain that told the world's Jews their claim to a homeland was, by international law, bigotry. It took sixteen years, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, to undo it. In September 1991, President George H.W. Bush went to the UN General Assembly and announced the United States would lead the fight to repeal it. Secretary of State James Baker worked it. Moynihan pushed it. Israel made the repeal a precondition of its own participation in the Madrid peace talks. On December 16, 1991, the resolution was revoked, 111 to 25. That was supposed to be the end of it. The world looked at the "Zionism is racism" formula, measured it against a genuine definition of racism and rejected it by a margin of more than four to one. Today a British political party, not some tiny fringe activist group, revived it. The Greens are party with five MPs and mayors in two London boroughs, led by a Jewish leader, Zack Polanski, who tried and failed to soften the motion before his own members voted it through anyway. Calling Zionism racism doesn't just indict a government's policies, which is fair game and happens every day in free societies. It indicts the idea that Jews, alone among peoples, have no legitimate claim to self-determination. It took the world sixteen years to climb out of this hole once. Now a party in the country that gave the world the Balfour Declaration has climbed back in.